There are Monsters Under the Bed

The big question, then, is when one should begin a conversation with them.

Each one. One at a time.

Yes, a conversation.

As long as it remains quiet in the room, I make up in my imagination what is about to happen. What I make up is usually something pretty horrible. A pending disaster, a fatal mistake, a hidden land mine, an imminent collapse.

In a conversation, on the other hand, I am free to participate. I don’t have to lie in the dark and speculate darkly.